On the NEW STATESMAN podcast, I speak to my mother's attitudes to political violence, on the return of fascism, the Iran war, the sad spectacle of some of my comrades staying in the Labour Party, and lastly the need to end electricity markets www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeB...
Very grateful to Senator Bernie Sanders for bringing U.S. unions together to create a common front in the face of the threat AI poses to workers and much else.
Sometimes it takes an 84-year-old to do the high tech stuff!
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British Steel 'needs nationalising by the summer'.
The whole industry needs nationalising. It relies on never-ending public subsidies. Profits privatised, losses socialised.
Private sector only looks at short-term profits, can't do national planning.
"The thing about Mayday is it's about internationalism."
#MayDay is our day: International Workers’ Day.
Join #London's largest May Day march and rally in a generation: bit.ly/LDNMayDayRSVP
#LDNMayDay #MayDay26 #Internationalism
Unite the union hold 24 hour strike action as Scottish university staff face a 30% real terms pay cut - how are people supposed to live?
What kind of Wales do you want to live in?
A Cymru united will never be divided.
Join the #UnitedCymru campaign today.
Royal Mail was privatised 13 years ago.
Since then prices have tripled, and the service is garbage.
Another lesson of how privatisation never works.
Nationalise the lot, don't pay a penny, they have already stolen enough.
UK disability benefit cuts
New applicants for the health top-up to Universal Credit
to receive half of the current rate whilst cost of living rises. Loss of £200+ a month.
If you lose your benefit and reapply, you get the lower rate.
Thousands will be pushed into poverty.
Cruel.
Western imperialism doesn't bring freedom.
It brings murderous chaos.
Listen to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
#UnitedCymru Poster of the Week ✊
Pictured are members of TUC Cymru's General Council showing their support for our United Cymru campaign.
Cymru unedig am byth.
Reform: Starmer’s cap on expat donations breaches human rights.
Ridiculous accusation.
Reform wants money from tax exiles who don't live in the UK.
Must ban all political donations/bribes. They enable the super rich to hijack public choices, destroy our rights.
archive.ph/VZCUa
134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.
As Thomas Paine wrote in 1776: “of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.” #NoKings #NoEconomicRoyalists #NoAutocrats #NoOligarchs #NoTyrants 🇺🇸
As Thomas Paine wrote in 1776:
“of more worth is one honest man
to society, and in the sight of God,
than all the crowned ruffians
that ever lived.” #NoKings
#NoEconomicRoyalists #NoAutocrats
#NoOligarchs #NoTyrants 🇺🇸
Tony Benn's "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?"
Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.
Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's going to be a very hard summer for so many people and so many species. We can already feel here in BC, with the weak snowpack currently washing down mountains because of an unseasonable atmospheric river. The only ones doing well are the oil companies, with their record war profits.
Defending Democracy by Making America Radical Again: On the Senate Trail With Graham Platner www.commondreams.org/opinion/grah...
Public purse support for British Steel’s Chinese-owned Scunthorpe plant could exceed £1.5bn by 2028.
Govt says it is a loan but there is no repayment schedule. It won't be repaid.
Nationalisation is the only viable future - save jobs, reindustrialise, secure supply chains.
The £600,000 tax bill Richard Tice dodged would have funded the salaries of 20 nurses for a year
As Thomas Paine wrote in 1776: “of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.” #NoKings #NoEconomicRoyalists #NoAutocrats #NoOligarchs #NoTyrants 🇺🇸
Harrods facing legal action over its £1-a-head cover charge to diners’ bills that does not go to workers.
Law requires that all tips and service charges go to staff.
Qatar-owned Harrods hands the 12.5% optional service charge to workers but not the compulsory £1-a-head cover charge.
In the UK House of Lords I argued that political donations are part of political corruption.
Corporations and super-rich buy influence and power. Possibilities of democracy are stymied.
Can't nave democracy whilst parties are for sale.
Your thoughts pls
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Brilliant 😀
Mussolini had a policy on reproduction. This is fascism yet they will resort to 2 children benefits if they are elected.
Like Mussolini- inspired by Roman Emperor Augustus who did the same thing - he offered tax relief, citizens only of course 🙄
#OtD 15 Feb 1910 workers at the soon to be infamous Triangle Shirtwaist factory decided to end their strike. They had won higher wages and reduced hours but failed to get union recognition stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9556...
Distract 🙄
“Everyone will give all the support they can to the Birmingham Bin strikers, who are doing what any of us would do when threatened with a wage cut, standing up against it.”
- @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
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Farage frothing about WFH again…
Funny how the loudest critics are the ones who’ve probably never done a school run or a Zoom call with a sick kid in the background.
WFH isn’t hurting Britain - but Reform’s backers would hate you to realise who really is.
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